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Upcoming changes at Luther Luxembourg: Introducing our new Managing Partner

After 15 years at the helm of Luther Luxembourg, Eric Sublon hands over the reins to Bob Scharfe, who assumes the role of Managing Partner, effective from 1 January 2025.

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CMS Luxembourg renews its Management Board and announces new Managing Partner

International law firm CMS is pleased to announce the appointment of Vivian Walry as Managing Partner of its Luxembourg office, along with the appointment of Aurélien Hollard to t…

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DSM Avocats à la Cour celebrates its 20th anniversary

This year marks two decades of commitment to service to our clients, guided by our fundamental values: excellence, international, closeness, reactivity and availability.

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Key modifications to Luxembourg RBE and RCS Laws

On 19 December 2024, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted bill of law 7961 (La…

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EU adopts FASTER directive: a milestone for streamlining wit…

On 10 December 2024, the Council of the EU formally adopted the Faster and …

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Update on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation

The increasing importance of ESG (environmental, social, governance) factors have already been discussed in ourJanuary M&A Series. With the D…

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New CSSF platform for submission of prospectuses and related documents

Submissions of documents under the EU Prospectus Regulation (2017/1129, as amended) and the Law of 16 July 2019 on prospectuses for securities must no…

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Law on electronic media amended to meet today's audiovisual needs

Law of 26 February 2021 amending the law of 27 July 1991 on electronic media and implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1808 (the "Audiovisual Media Service…

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Joint ESA supervisory statement provides guidance on SFDR application timelines

On 25 February 2021, the European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”) published a joint supervisory statement (the “ESA Statement”) providing g…

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Key changes introduced by the Luxembourg law of 25 February 2021

The Luxembourg Parliament has adopted a law of 25 February 2021 (the “Law”) which notably amends the law of 12 November 2004 on the fight against mone…

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La détection des comportements criminels au sein des entreprises via les mécanismes de lutte contre le blanchi…

Les entreprises assujetties à la loi du 12 novembre 2004 relative à la lutte contre le blanchiment et le financement du terrorisme, ont été au fil du …

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To pay or not to pay ? That is the Question

COVID 19 : la jurisprudence luxembourgeoise s’est prononcée sur l’obligation de paiement du loyer par le preneur d’un bail commercial

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Significant VAT decision regarding company cars in Luxembourg

The Administration de l’Enregistrement, des Domaines et de la TVA (the Luxembourg VAT authorities) confirmed in Circular n°807 that :  …

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EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions updated: Implications for Luxembourg taxpayers

Today, the EU Council updated the EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. The update is an important step as it directly impacts the scope of ap…

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Luxembourg legislator paves the way for the issuance of dematerialised securities using distributed ledger tec…

On 26 January 2021, a new Luxembourg law dated 22 January 2021 (the “2021 DLT Law”) entered into effect, amending the Luxembourg law of 6 April 2013 o…

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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Space Activities in Luxembourg

At the end of 2020, Luxembourg adopted the Act of 15 December 2020 on space activities (loi du 15 décembre 2020 portant sur les activités spatiales) (…

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Bill of law passed approving the Protocol to the Luxembourg-Russia Tax Treaty

At the request of the Russian authorities, Luxembourg and the Russian Federation agreed to amend the Treaty, signing the Protocol on 6 November 2020.&…

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CSSF – 2020 Survey related to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing

The annual online survey for the year 2020 to collect standardised key information concerning money laundering and terrorist financing (“ML/CFT”) risk…

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Amendment to Insurance Contract Act in relation to Brexit

The Act of 19 December 2020(1) implementing the Budget Act 2021 introduced into the Insurance Contract Act(2) a new provision to secure the …

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Clarifications on the validity of insurance contracts concluded by UK insurance undertakings in a post-Brexit …

Validity of insurance contracts concluded by UK insurance undertakings in a post-Brexit context – Clarifications by the Luxembourg legislator

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Covid-19 and Commercial Lease Payments: Time for a Discount?

As the world continues to battle the Covid-19 pandemic, small businesses are struggling to survive, affected by successive lockdowns. Despite signific…

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Parallel structures: the Luxembourg solution

Parallel investment funds have increasingly become a preferred structure for sophisticated private equity fund managers seeking to access capital with…

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CSSF launches its 2020 survey collecting standardised key information concerning money laundering and terroris…

On 27 January 2021, the Luxembourg supervisory authority for the financial sector, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the …

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New law on payments to EU ‘black-list’ countries

On 28 January 2021, the Luxembourg Parliament approved bill of law n°7547 implementing measures concerning the non-tax-deductibility of interest and r…

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Measure denying the tax deduction of interest and royalties due to entities in blacklisted jurisdictions passe…

Yesterday, the draft law which introduces a measure denying under certain conditions the corporate income tax deduction of interest and royalty expens…

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